Once again, we are reminded of Nietzsche's admonition that we ''worry lest scholars become journalistic.'' It is clear that your reporter is no scholar of the works of Nietzsche, and the article should warn us of the dangers of the journalist attempting to justify his preconceptions, rather than inform us of the views of the philosophers.

The article attempts to present recent East German Marxist reinterpretations of Nietzsche's thought, the irony of which is missed because the writer seems unaware of Nietzsche's criticism of socialism as destructive to the individual. Nowhere in the article, however, are we presented with any features of this reinterpretation.

Instead, we are presented with the time-worn misinterpretations and distortions of Nietzsche's thought that continue to equate his views with Nazism and fail to present the distortions of his views at the hands of his sister and the Nazi ''scholars.''

Two short quotations from Nietzsche should at least cause one to pause before pronouncing final judgment on his views and perhaps might even lead one to pick up the works of Nietzsche. ''I have somehow something like 'influence' . . . In the Anti-Semitic Correspondence . . . my name is mentioned in almost every issue. 'Zarathustra' . . . has charmed the anti-Semites; there is a special anti-Semitic interpretation of it that made me laugh very much.''

Nietzsche's repudiation of his sister's marriage to Bernhard Forster because of Forster's anti-Semitism is clear in many of his writings:

''One of the greatest stupidities you have committed - for yourself and for me! Your association with an anti-Semitic chief expresses a foreignness to my whole way of life, which fills me ever again with ire or melancholy . . . It is a matter of honor to me to be absolutely clean and unequivocal regarding anti-Semitism, namely opposed, as I am in my writings . . . Above all, it arouses mistrust against my character, as if I publicly condemned something that I favored secretly . . .''

Nietzsche felt that there was always a danger that the philosopher would ''be misunderstood and for a long time thought an ally of powers he abhors . . .'' Your article fosters this misunderstanding of Nietzsche's views. JOSEPH J. GUSMANO Asst. Professor of Philosophy Rockland Community College Suffern, N.Y., Nov. 28, 1987